Weekly To-Do #42 End of January

Happy Birthday Carol and Janice! We hope you each have a fabulous birthday! This is our 42nd edition of our weekly to-do list and the last one for January. I share this post on Beth’s Cooking Up Quilts website on Monday, and Tuesday’s linky party can be found on Christine’s Stitch All the Things website. ~smile~

To-Do Tuesday for the week January 22nd through 28th:

Sew a couple of Regatta Quilt strips – √ done

Start on the Fluffer project – √ done

Start quilting the Grandma’s Kitchen table runner – √ done

To-Do #1

I did indeed sew a few more strips together for the Regatta Quilt. I’m a few ahead as well, since I sewed rows 4, 7, and 8. Thankfully I noticed BEFORE I incorrectly skipped over rows 5 and 6. Sue asked ME how they got out of order! Like I went over to her area and messed them up . . . humph. I believe we have sections A and B together now. Twelve rows at any rate, or six of the nineteen solid colored strips.

To-Do #2

Our friends Cindy at In a Stitch Quilting and Tracy at It’s A T-Sweets Day are hosting a Mystery Quilt Along. There is really only one requirement for this QAL, and that is to use Fluffer Nutter fabric by Moda. We have cut a few strips to start our Fluffer & Picnic project.

I guess from this photo you really have no idea what we’re going to do with these strips. Maybe we don’t either! HAHA! I sure do like these two colors together though. Very nice . . .

To-Do #3

The table runner was constructed last week, and my task for this week was quilting. I was able to get it all quilted using a variety of techniques. Straight-line stitching and ruler work were combined on this runner. It ended up a good size, and I will share all the details in a post later this week. I’ll also share what I learned on my first major attempt with rulers. I will definitely use them again – there is a learning curve but not such a steep one that it is daunting.

Quilting on the Peppermint Swirl block

Sneak peak as a bed runner – all finished!

January OMG Goal:

Our January OMG goal is to completely finish the Dr Seuss commission quilt this month. This is already finished – can you even believe it?! I posted our message about meeting this challenge on Elm Street Quilts January Finish the first day we could. Hmm, now what should we do for February?!

To-Do January 29th through February 4th:

Sew another couple of strips for the Regatta

Finish the Love Quilt a.k.a. Nobody’s Perfect coined by Sue

Determine our February OMG

Watch the Super Bowl – well, halftime at least

I wish you a week filled with many blessings and good sewing/quilting vibes!

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So much accomplished! I really love the colors in the Regatta quilt. They look so crisp against the white! I am curious about the Mystery Quilt along… Can’t wait to see what those strip-sets become! Yay for getting the table runner all quilted!

I have my Regatta strips sewn. Now I just need to lay them out and stitch up the strip sets. I haven’t had time to quilt much this weekend, so that was a bit disappointing. I don’t know who messed up your strips, but I’m pretty sure my cat Max will help with mine if I leave them lying around all in order. Haha!

Hi Wendy, If only I had Max to help me out! It was pure luck that I discovered they were in the wrong order when ironing. Otherwise we would have some creative license going on as far as color gradation. ~smile~ Roseanne

Your curves look so smoothly stitched, maybe I’ll have to try rulers sometime. I’m planning on quilting my Regatta sometime in February but I want to make a crib quilt with the leftover fabric first so they can be quilted at the same time. Why? I don’t know but it seems like the right thing to do. They just want to be quilted together. Happy stitching!

Hi Gretchen, Well, that is a very sweet comment about the curves. The stitch length is fairly irregular though on the ruler work – don’t look too closely! I can understand why they want to be quilted together! They want to stick together as long as they can. ~smile~ Roseanne